Brendan McNamara is working on getting back into the triple-A games market following the dissolution of Team Bondi. McNamara says that his new title will be a major event, detailing “the greatest untold story of the 20th century.”
McNamara, who was head of the now defunct Team Bondi, is hoping to turn around the problems that were seen in the critically-lauded L.A. Noire. While the game did sell well, the studio was shut down following allegations of unfair working conditions regarding pay. The Rockstar produced IP remains with the company, while many of the former staff went to other studios in and around Sydney, Australia.
The former studio head is now a free-agent, and has reportedly been working to offer a new title that has multiple publishers interested. He hopes that this go around will bear more fruit through. "I learnt a ton of things from doing L.A. Noire which will hopefully play into what we do next," he told Eurogamer.
"A lot of people who were working on L.A. Noire have gone across to KMM, some of them to be working on some of the film projects. A lot of the art and animation guys went across. Some of the people have gone to work in different Rockstar studios. I'm personally just writing some new stuff now, which I've been pitching around for the last couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll have something to announce on that pretty soon."
"There are a few people interested, yeah," he said. "I've still got to do the paperwork."
As for continued use of MotionScan, the technology used in L.A. Noire, McNamara believes that he will be using it even more, now that technology is being developed to include full body support.
"I own some of the shares, and some other people own some of the shares. It's a limited company, and there are some other investors in that, too. Hopefully towards the end of that we'll have the full body stuff up and running. That could be pretty interesting, too," he said.
